Numlock Sunday: Dave Infante on the decline of homebrewing and the ascent of Buzzballz

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week, I spoke to Dave Infante who writes the newsletter Fingers all about drinking in America.

Perhaps it’s because of back to school, perhaps because liquor store and convenience store shelves are stocked with confusing and frightening concoctions, but I felt it as good a time as any to have Dave back on to talk all about the cutting edge of the alcohol business.

Dave can be found at his newlsetter, Fingers.

This interview has been condensed and edited.

Photo by Iain Robertson on Unsplash

Hey, Dave, thanks so much for coming back on.

I'm always glad to be here, man.

It is always good to have you. I mean, you cover, I think, one of my favorite and most fascinating beats for half a dozen reasons, but it is back-to-school time. The one thing on everybody's mind is changes in youth drinking culture.I wanted to talk to you a little bit about just kicking off the school year. I've seen some new and troubling words that as a man in my mid…